The parliamentary debate on July 7 over the use of dialects in films suggests that dialects are no longer being viewed through the same policy lens that shaped decisions in the past. Read more at ...

A survey of more than 30,000 people, turned into a series of maps, showcase the linguistic quirks that make American English ...

CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...

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If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

An additional 100 screenings of the Teochew version of the film Dear You were approved on July 7. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or a coda. But sound recordings suggest that eastern creatures use a sped-up v ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

As an actor, working privately with a professional dialect coach can be the most rapid, reliable, trouble-free method for mastering an accent, and there’s no disputing that the addition of a key ...

There is scope to consider how to “expand the space for dialects”, while continuing to uphold the importance of Mandarin, ...